Black Angel of Death..., What do you think of Grand Nationals? Options

[bigjiggy81]

Thinking about selling my 1g awd project and my 90 300zx and getting an 86 Buick Grand National, the black angel of death as some call them, and also picking up a decent small pickup for daily driving, have any of you guys ran into any GN's or raced any? There are 2 i am looking at, both around 8k and both with about 125k miles, I really want one, to take out to the track every once in a while and also take to car shows and all that, some people love em some people hate em, i kinda like the "joe dirt" look of them, how about ou?

[awd4kicks]

Oh boy the whole 'Streetable' argument....hang on fellas this may be a long one.

Personally (Key word) I feel streetabiliy is more of a range than one certain level.

There are cars that have 4 wheels with a fiberglass shell that represents a regular manufactured car body and roll on a street called a drag strip. on the other end of the spectrum there are brand spanking new electric hybrid cars out there that can roll accross the entire united states without breaking overheating or suprisingly using much more gas that it take the other car to go 1/4 mile. Obviously there is a huge difference in performance.

For the 'Fastest Street car' races found in Hot Rod magazine a car has to be able to drive like ten miles without breaking or overheating...beyond that it's anyones game. And they build those biatches right to the limit where they would spew something if they went 50 feet past that 10 mile test run.

To me the DSM offers up a beautifull combination of performance and true streetability. The turbo offers great daily driver abilities when off boost and awesome performance potential when on boost.

My aim for the DSM has always been to take down the high rolling vettes and possibly vipers that prowl the streets to the extent of my gear limited speed. To me that means I have to be able to go on the same roadways, for the same distances, and not worry about overheating, bad idling, or whatever. That's exceptional streetability with very nice performance.